The Vermont Statutes Online

Subchapter
003A
:
CHILD CUSTODY AND SUPPORT

(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 650)

§
650. Legislative findings and purpose

The
legislature finds and declares as public policy that after parents have
separated or dissolved their civil marriage, it is in the best interests of
their minor child to have the opportunity for maximum continuing physical and
emotional contact with both parents, unless direct physical harm or significant
emotional harm to the child or a parent is likely to result from such contact.
The legislature further finds and declares as public policy that parents have the
responsibility to provide child support, and that child support orders should
reflect the true costs of raising children and approximate insofar as possible
the standard of living the child would have enjoyed had the family remained
intact. (Added 1985, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2003, No. 159 (Adj.
Sess.), § 5; 2009, No. 3, § 12a, eff. Sept. 1, 2009.)